Reading List, Week of 2021-11-21

Reading List 2021-11-22:

*The Book Lover. Compiled by Ali Smith (started)
*Ellroy, James. Clandestine (reread/finished)
*Remender, Rick, et al. Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope (started/finished)
*Segar, E. C. Complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 10: Dailies 1935-1937 (started/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/finished)
*Harrison, John M. Climbers (finished)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-11-14

The music is good......

Playlist 2021-11-15:

*Beach Boys: 1970-02-28 Seattle (CDR)

*Beach Boys: Carl and the Passions….So Tough

*Beach Boys: 1972-11-23 Carnegie Hall NYC (CDR)

*Beach Boys: Holland

*Beatles: Beatles for Sale (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)

*Rob Brown/Matthew Shipp: Then Now

*Rob Brown Quartet: From Here to Hear

*Chicago: Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete (selections CDR) (disc 2)

*Chicago: Chicago V

*Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head "Theme from a Symphony (Variation One)"

*John Coltrane: Live in Seattle (disc 1)

*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

*Miles Davis: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 (disc 4) "Circle in the Round"

*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can

*Hamid Drake/Sylvain Kassap: Heads or Tails (disc 1)

*Paul Dunmall/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Bright Awakening

*Michel Edelin Quartet: Resurgence

*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts, January, 1943 "Black," "Brown"

*Duke Ellington: Live in Mexico "The Mexican Suite"

*Tim Hodgkinson: Under the Void

*Yusef Lateef: Roots Run Deep

*Dave Liebman/Steve Dalachinsky: The Fallout of Dreams

*Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Conference of the Mat/ts

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 5, 6)

*Colin Moulding: The Hardest Battle

*Evan Parker Quartet: All Knavery and Collusion

*Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (sides 1, 2)

*Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (sides 1, 2)

*Lee "Scratch" Perry, the Upsetters, & Friends: The Upsetter Compact Set (disc 1)

*Cash Rivers and the Sinners: Blue Balls Lincoln

*Matthew Shipp Trio/Nicole Mitchell: All Things Are

*Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley: What If?

*Claudia Solal/Benoît Delbecq: Hopetown

*Sparks: Hello Young Lovers

*Sparks/Franz Ferdinand: FFS

*Steve Swell Quintet Soul Travelers: Astonishments

*Turbine!: Entropy/Enthalpy (disc 1)

*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (disc 7)

*John Zorn/Simulacrum: Simulacrum

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-14

Reading List 2021-11-15:

*Harrison, John M. Climbers (started)
*Atkinson, Kate. When Will There Be Good News? (started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Started Early, Took My Dog (started/finished)
*Atkinson, Kate. Big Sky (started/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

 

Playlist, Week of 2021-11-07

Glad they kept the released version of "Passing By" instrumental, but it sure is nice to have the version with added vocals as well....

Playlist 2021-11-08:

*Beach Boys: Wake the World: The Friends Sessions
*Beach Boys: Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 (disc 3)
*black midi: Cavalcade
*Borderlands Trio: Wandersphere (discs 1, 2)
*Paul Chambers: Go…
*Paul Chambers: 1st Bassman
*Chicago: Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete (selections CDR) (disc 1)
*Gerald Cleaver/Larry Ochs: Songs of the Wild Cave
*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
*Jacques Coursil with Alan Silva: FreeJazzArt
*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can
*Robert Dick/Tiffany Chang: Raise the River
*East-West Collective: Humeurs
*Michel Edelin's Flute Fever Orchestra: Kalamania (disc 2)
*Farmers By Nature: Farmers By Nature
*Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris
*Jefferson Pilot: Long Distance
*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 3, 4)
*Jemeel Moondoc Quartet: The Astral Revelations: Live at Bimhuis
*Joe Morris/Mary Halvorson: Traversing Orbits
*Olivia Tremor Control: Presents: Singles and Beyond
*Lee Perry: Scratch Attack!
*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 3)
*Matthew Shipp/John Butcher/Thomas Lehn: The Clawed Stone
*Sparks: Whomp That Sucker
*Spring: Spring
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1966-10-16 Stuttgart (CDR) (disc 1)
*Tiger Trio: Map of Liberation
*Weasel Walter/Henry Kaiser/Damon Smith: Plane Crash
*Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941) (discs 5, 6)
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: The Painted Bird
*John Zorn/Simulacrum: 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in the Abominable Life and Times of Gilles de Rais
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Insurrection
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692

Reading List, Week of 2021-11-07

Reading List 2021-11-08:

*Atkinson, Kate. When Will There Be Good News? (started)
*Smith, Ali. Girl Meets Boy (started/finished)
*Macdonald, Ross. The Doomsters (reread/finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2021-10-31

Packy....

Playlist 2021-11-01:

*Charles "Packy" Axton: Late Late Party 1965-67 (sides 1, 2)

*Beach Boys: The Smile Sessions (sides 2, 3)

*Anthony Braxton/Miya Masaoka: Duo (DCWM) 2013 (disc 1)

*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020 (discs 9, 10 streaming)

*John Coltrane: 1965-04-02 Half Note, NYC (CDR) (disc 3)

*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can

*Michel Edelin Quintet: Echoes of Henry Cow

*Duke Ellington: All American in Jazz

*Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene

*Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker

*John Gilmore: Non-Sun Ra Sax Solos (youtube)

*Grateful Dead: Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 (disc 20) "Dark Star"

*Joe Henderson: Black Narcissus

*Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique

*Jefferson Pilot: Long Distance

*Hank Mobley: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (discs 1, 2)

*Monstrance: Monstrance (discs 1, 2)

*RAIC: Gestalt

*Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra: Trilogy (disc 2)

*Matthew Shipp: Magnetism(s) (disc 2)

*Wadada Leo Smith/Milford Graves/Bill Laswell: Sacred Ceremonies (discs 2, 3)

*Tyshawn Sorey: Unfiltered (discs 1, 2)

*Sparks: Balls

*Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony Orchestra: Three Favorite Ballets: Stravinsky Conducts Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring (side 1)

*Sun Ra: Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

*Sun Ra: Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano

*Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume II

*Various artists: The Wire Tapper 57

*Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music (disc 2)

*World Saxophone Quartet: W.S.Q. 

*World Saxophone Quartet: Revue 

Reading List, Week of 2021-10-31

Reading List 2021-11-01:

*Macdonald, Ross. The Doomsters (reread/started)
*King, Owen, Mark Jude Poirier, and Nancy Ahn. Intro to Alien Invasion (started/finished)
*Lemire, Jeff. Essex County (started/finished)
*Mitchell, David. Utopia Avenue (started/finished)
*Smith, Ali. The Whole Story and Other Stories (started/finished)
*Steig, William. Abel's Island (started/finished)
*Smith, Ali. Like (finished)
*Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and In the Studio (reread/in progress)
*Booth, Stephen. Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed. with analytic commentary by Booth) (in progress)
*Brennan, Matt. Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (1609 Quarto) (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. Sonnets (ed. Helen Vendler) (reread/in progress)